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Apple’s battle over the iPad trademark in China could be moving toward resolution. That’s the word from the attorney representing Proview, Apple’s antagonist in the spat, who tells IDG that the two companies have agreed to participate in a mediation session. Meanwhile, the case — a rats’ nest of a...

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Proview’s legal battle with Apple over the iPad trademark grows more inane by the day. This morning the bankrupt company said it won a ruling from People’s Intermediate Court in Huizhou barring Sundan, a Chinese electronics retail chain, from selling iPads. But the decision applies only to Sundan’s Huizhou branch....

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Souvenir from South by. “I got my first match!” one of the cofounders of Bang With Friends told Betabeat earlier this week as we scarfed down free grilled cheese on the curb outside the Austin Convention Center. Around us, hordes of lanyard-wearing South by Southwest attendees swarmed by, eyes firmly fixed on...

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With the news breaking of copyright troll firm Prenda Law, along with John Steele and Paul Duffy (who basically appear to be Prenda) suing a bunch of critics for defamation, it's worth remembering that the challenges to some of their existing lawsuits are still ongoing. Brett Gibbs, who has been...

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We've already talked about James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence choosing weasel words to pretend they're saying that they weren't spying on Americans when they really were, and now some are arguing that the tech companies are doing the same exact thing. All of the tech companies listed have...

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The Dilbert cartoon above doesn’t speak well of the search engine optimization position. The cartoon ties people who do SEO as weasels and those that hire SEOs as an accomplice, someone who actively participates in the commission of a crime. It goes on to say the SEO will go ahead...

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Well, well. In the aftermath of the revelations that the NSA is getting records of every phone call from Verizon, followed up by the news that most of the biggest tech companies are supposedly giving direct access to the NSA, the intelligence community is responding the same way it always...

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A bigger percentage of Microsoft's workforce 51% is in R&D than Apple's, 39%, according to LinkedIn data. 53% of RIM's workforce is in R&D. This seems counter-intuitive. Maybe RIM and Microsoft employ a lot of R&D people because it is desperate to figure out what's next, while Apple is...

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commentary Mobile networks are running out of capacity. But the federal government is doing everything it can to weasel out of a White House promise to free up some of its vast stockpile of radio spectrum. [Read more]...

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Facebook is not for reaching out to strangers. Facebook Messages is not an email replacement. Facebook is for sharing stuff with your friends, people you actually know and want to talk to. So I don't understand why Facebook is testing a feature that lets strangers pay $1 to send you...

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A major setback for Proview in its battle with Apple over the rights to the iPad trademark in China. The Pudong District People’s Court has denied the company’s request for an injunction that would have that would have temporarily halted iPad sales in Shanghai. “We had requested an injunction that...

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The Daily Dot's Kevin Collier has a detailed article about his experience as a journalist at the latest TPP negotiating round. He talks mainly about the various "stakeholder" presentations, which are the only access concerned groups have to the negotiators. As we've already noted, the USTR made sure to limit...

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Who owns the iPad trademark in China? Apple claims it does. But evidently Chinese government officials disagree. Fu Shuangjian, the vice minister of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), an agency that enforces trade laws in China, said today that Apple gadfly Proview is still the holder of...

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I love iMessage and use it daily to stay in touch with friends and family. It offers a few key advantages over standard SMS, making it a total winner in my book. Unlimited text and picture messaging at no extra cost. Telling me when someone has read my message...

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In how many ways did Google respond to this week’s letter (PDF) from the data protection authorities of nine countries criticising the company’s approach to privacy? The first response came in the form of a statement from Google’s official PR operation. Predictably, it was blander than bland. “We try...

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Looks like Proview doesn’t need to find a law firm to sue Apple in the Untited States, as it said last week. Not only does it already have one, but according to The Wall Street Journal it’s already filed suit on February 17– the very day Li Su, chairman of...

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The folks over at the CATO Institute have put together a short five minute video on the rush by the federal government to renew the FISA Amendments Act, with no changes, which effectively has sanctioned warrantless wiretapping on millions of Americans. Even though the plain language of the bill suggests...

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Over the past few days, it has spread far and wide that Microsoft was either retracting, or at least lessening its support for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA. That is well and good, except for the fact that it was wrong. Microsoft today reaffirmed its...

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Proview Technology, the cash-strapped Chinese company scrapping with Apple over the iPad trademark, best steel itself for a long, grueling legal battle. Cupertino is adamant that it legally owns the iPad mark throughout Asia, and that Proview is doing nothing more than squeezing it for additional money to use the...

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Gizmodo.com published an article, Smoke & Mirrors: The Greatest Scam in Tech, about Redmond's venture, Peep Telephony. In addition to using the word "scam" in the title, the article had lots of denigrating things to say about Peep and about Redmond's prior initiatives. (The opinion lays out the beefs, although...

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Photo by Flickr user seelensturm One of the greatest highlights of summer is hearing an ice cream truck roll up the street, its slightly out-of-tune rendition of "La Cucaracha" or "Pop Goes the Weasel" growing louder as it approaches while you fish around in your pockets for change. The...

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No, Verizon (VZ), you won’t be able to weasel out of your obligations to offer fair roaming agreements for wireless data services. Per Reuters, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled unanimously on Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission has the right to tell Verizon that it...

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A bit of good news among in the seeming rubble that is the iPhone 5 launch: the $30 adapter you have to buy to connect your Lightning iPhone 5 to your old and busted iPod dock should stream audio without problem. The folks at audio company Line 6 did some...

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In The Lord of the Rings, when Sauron’s forces capture Gollum, they torture him in Mordor but are only able to get two things out of him: “Shire” and “Baggins”. Over the past few days, we’ve had similar frustrations in trying to track down the content of the Facebook event...

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Several startups plan to use your smartphone to replace restaurant pagers. Photo: Renée S./Flickr If you’ve dined out in the last decade (all those hipper-than-thou food trucks don’t count) you’re familiar with the restaurant pager. Those hockey puck-sized hunks of plastic that light up like you’ve won the lottery when...

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This weekend, Sahas Katta dropped by the Microsoft Store in Santa Clara to take the "Smoked by Windows Phone" challenge. He won a $1,000 laptop, but the people in the store tried to deny his victory. He only got justice after complaining on his blog. The challenge started as...

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Proview's Shenzhen HeadquartersProview, the bankrupt company embroiled in a pitched battle with Apple over the Chinese rights to the iPad trademark, says it’s willing to negotiate out of court to reach a settlement. On the eve of a hearing that would determine whether or not an injunction against iPad sales...

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This is the part of our dinner where we get into the biggest question that plagues this new generation of cloud startups: Is software bought or sold? Put another way: Do you still need all those obnoxious, elephant hunter salesmen? Most companies start from the position of saying software...

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So we already wrote a bit about how Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was using weasel words or outright lying, in trying to insist that the NSA wasn't actually gathering up data on pretty much every American. However, his statements go even further into the ridiculous. In his initial...